A Texas man has pleaded guilty to federal charges accusing him of killing nearly two dozen people in a racist attack at an El Paso Walmart
A towering memorial, in the form of a giant candle, to the victims of the August 2019 mass shooting in El Paso, Texas, is pictured on Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2023. Patrick Crusius, the defendant in the deaths of 23 people at an El Paso Walmart is expected to plead guilty during a re-arraignment hearing in federal court.
“This guy knew what he was doing. It was premeditated,” Hernandez said of the shooting."He came here to take care of business.” Prosecutors presented a detailed narrative of the attack during Wednesday's plea hearing, describing how it began with a pedestrian gunned down in the parking lot before Crusius opened fire on people at a fundraiser for a soccer team.
More than three years after the shooting, the description of an"invasion" on the U.S.-Mexico border has continued in American politics. Critics have condemned the characterization as anti-immigrant and dangerous in the aftermath of El PasoTexas Gov. Greg Abbott, a Republican, has recently embraced using the word “invasion” while authorizing a series of hardline immigration measures.
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